{"id":7452,"date":"2021-08-26T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7452"},"modified":"2021-08-26T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T05:00:00","slug":"mud-pies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/mud-pies\/","title":{"rendered":"Mud Pies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn82016014\/1913-08-26\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Topeka State Journal, August 26, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>. By Anna P. Bryant.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plums are pebbles, and you can mix<br>Nice brown dirt and chopped-up sticks,<br>Pat it down and set in the sun\u2014<br>When it gets hard your pie is done!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sand is frosting; sift it fine;<br>Sprinkle thick till it gets a shine<br>Just like mother\u2019s\u2014I guess that you<br>Would have a piece if I asked you to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mince and apple and custard thick!<br>Haven\u2019t I done my baking quick?<br>Watch me, now, while I cut my pie\u2014<br>Whoever wants a piece say \u201cI!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Topeka State Journal, August 26, 1913. By Anna P. Bryant. Plums are pebbles, and you can mixNice brown dirt and chopped-up sticks,Pat it down and set in the sun\u2014When it gets hard your pie is done! Sand is frosting; sift it fine;Sprinkle thick till it gets a shineJust like mother\u2019s\u2014I guess that youWould [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-7452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-topeka-state-journal","tag-anna-p-bryant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}